A well-meaning conservative politician that I follow across the country from me, finished off her latest mini-rant by asking if Trudeau will be ruining my Christmas. My immediate thought was, “No!”. Christmas in our house isn’t tight because of government idiocy, but instead because of lost jobs earlier in the …
Today we held a very successful, upbeat, fun, and informative late fall/early winter foraging workshop and trail tour. We chose a trail we haven’t been on before, in a new regional park in the area. To my surprise, a fair bit of ground-based foraging was still to be found to …
Two days after the first jar’s July 30th check date, and 14 days before the other three jar’s check date, I decided to finish the fir mugolio. My reason for doing so is that the sugar slush appeared to be solidified across the bottom of the jars, and there was …
Brought home some very “fat” green fir cones from the barn last night! By “fat”, I mean literally dripping with sap, using the term the same way very sappy wood is known as “fat”. The tree that we got them from not only was very generous in popping them off …
First I wrote about Edmonton and Calgary, the international C40 mayor’s organization that is heavily pushing the idea of 15 minute cities, also called Smart Cities. Well, things are happening around the Central Okanagan of British Columbia as well, just not pushed as openly as they’ve done in the province …
Today’s foraging run will probably be the only one for this week, unless Ashley surprises me and decides to head out to an area we can walk to, on Canada Day, July 1st. We were both tired today, so only a couple photos, with one showing several of the plants …
We had a really good time at the Artful Hand Sanctuary Fair this past Sunday! The attitudes that walked past our table this year were far more neutral-to-welcoming/interested, than a year ago! We had a number of really good conversations, and for a wellness fair, actually came close to our …
So I began my curly dock “bread” experiments this weekend, on Friday. Some out there skip the toasting step and go straight to the blender step because as one lady put it, “they’ve already dried on the stalk, no need to dry them further”. I decided to test that theory. …
A list of crazy-expensive drugs showed up in an article on CTV recently. These drugs cover three very common issues most people seem to face at one time in their lives or another, or they know someone afflicted by them. These three drugs cost more than “an arm and a …
“Hundreds of medications are either running low or out of stock completely, with some store shelves depleted of children’s allergy medication, adult cough and cold syrup, eye drops and even some oral antibiotics, industry experts say.” https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/drug-shortages-worsen-across-canada-extend-beyond-kids-pain-and-fever-meds-1.6154117 Yet more criminal behaviour from the string pullers as they seek to feed …
